Are there any telecomm/Internet security/hacker experts who would like to help me with counter-intelligence?
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March 4th, 2009
Apparently I am under some sort of sneaky hacker attack where someone is trying to spoof email messages and caller ID phone calls between me and women I know, apparently to cause disruption or something. I’m a little out of my depth in terms of being able to gain information about who has caused the calls and emails. Anyone have unusual knowledge know how to figure out who is placing calls and/or emails? I will want to limit details to private messages.
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check the pancakes in the frizzer.
we will contact you later with more info.
Are you talking about online calls, cell calls or landline?
Honestly, half the world’s EPIC LEET HACKERZ ZOMG! can be stopped by changing your passwords.
If this is emails, and say Skype, it’s probably just some dbag you know messing with you. Your question was a bit limited on the details. :)
@asmonet – Both. Within 48 hours:
1. A phone call was placed to woman A showing caller ID info for woman B while I and A were at the receiving end. A answered and no one spoke. B categorically denies placing the call.
2. Test Email was sent from my Yahoo account to B, which I didn’t place. I was alone at the time on the timestamp, and B had just left the building where I was.
Oh, and further information, A and B have very limited information about each other, and my Yahoo password is not written anywhere either have access to. My computers have passwords.
@Zaku there used to be a website, which would allow you to spoof a caller ID, but i think it’s now defunct.
As for the Yahoo! account, those things are as crackable as a walnut. Change your password – make it something not easily discernable.
Yeah, I understand you have passwords. I mean change them now.
There still are spoof sites, and it’s fairly easy to fake an email. Just ignore it, it will go away most likely.
About changing your password, if you security question is something that can easily be cracked, you’re better off just getting a new email. Yahoo does not allow you to change those questions, so no matter how many times you change the password, it can still be hacked.
@asmonet – Thanks. That’s my hope and plan so far.
@dragonflyfaith – Good point, thanks.
I did change the password, though I half regret it, since more activity could give me more clues who that knows me, is being weird. I don’t think it is simply “EPIC LEET HACKERZ” #24,894 because of the separation of information available (pretty sure the Yahoo account has never communicated with B, and A’s phone number is almost nowhere in my stuff, while B supposedly doesn’t know A’s full name, and B’s number is unlisted, and the circumstances of people chosen, timing, etc.
But ya, Asmonet’s plan. Don’t add to the NUTZORS.
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